From the start of the Leiby Kletzky tragedy, we’ve been hearing about the Shomrim – a neighborhood patrol the people of Borough Park turn to in times of trouble. CBS 2’s Scott Rapoport has more on the unique relationship.
Both of New Yorks leading daily newspapers featured the story of Lipa Schmeltzers tribute song to Leiby Kletzky on their front page’s ‘top three’ stories.
This past Shabbos, the Rabbinical College of Australia and New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah Melbourne) hosted the annual “Kinus HaShluchim” conference for the Talmidim HaShluchim of Australia.
Kaua‘i, Hawaii. What is it about this place?
Even the name, the street signs, the local paper, have an evocative vibe. All those H’s, W’s, and U’s make the cadences of Hawaiian sound like it’s the wind talking. It all has this exotic feel to it: something faraway, involving islands, and just foreign enough.
Crown and Brooklyn, once known as the most dangerous intersection in the neighborhood, played host to yet another accident in which one car tore through a red light, sending both cars onto the sidewalk.
Chabad of Ocean City recently dedicated three Sifrai Torahs. Over the past 15 Years Chabad of Ocean City, MD. under Rabbi Noum and Cohava Cohen have been helping 100’s of locals and tourists get their Jewish needs.
A new system using video and computer software to monitor a baby that could be used to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), as well as for telemedicine applications, has been developed by two students at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU).
Say “Chabad,” and many people likely picture men in dark suits, black hats and long beards. But Beth Menachem Chabad (BMC) in Newton isn’t your father’s Chabad. On any given Saturday, the men arrive ready to pray, dressed in everyday clothing: jeans, corduroys, trousers or suits.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Jewish woman called Shomrim at 2:00am on Motzai Shabbos after she spotted two Black men in her car on Carroll Street. Through amazing collaboration between the NYPD and Shomrim the two were apprehended and arrested – later discovering that they were responsible for multiple break-ins that same night.
Besides putting on Teffilin with one missionary, a number of people heckled the group, asking them to leave our neighborhood. Others engaged them in debate.
It’s the many-child-left-behind policy. Furious Hasidic parents claim the 25-child limit on the new East River ferries is unfair — because it can’t accommodate their extra-large broods.
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.” (Abraham Lincoln)
Over the past few weeks a dozen or so congressional leaders have sued the President in federal court for violating the War Powers Act. The War Powers Act allows the President to commit troops overseas for 90 days; should the President want a continued military presence, he would need a declaration of war from Congress.
A woman who lives three doors down from “the Butcher of Brooklyn” said yesterday that the madman had tried to kidnap her young son right off their block, but that she scared him away with her screams.
The most traumatic moment of Richard Litt’s life was watching two men escort his out-of-control teenage son from their Michigan home in the middle of the night to take him to a wilderness-therapy program in Utah — at his father’s request.
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